It feels like we just did this… we just announced an ASP.NET release, and here comes another one. The development team has been hard at work right through the release of Visual Studio 2015 to deliver an updated set of packages and tools for you...

This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments...

Long time readers of this blog or followers of the ASP.NET Community Standup know that this day was coming, and we have a released version of ASP.NET 4.6 framework and tools with Visual Studio 2015. Not only are we shipping ASP.NET 4.6, but we are also...

The ASP.NET Merge tool (Aspnet_merge.exe) enables you to combine and manage the assemblies that are created by the ASP.NET compilation tool (Aspnet_compiler.exe). It was built on top of a Microsoft Research project, ILMerge, through which Aspnet_merge...

This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments...

There’s some exciting news for the ASP.NET community this week on the Visual Studio blog that we wanted to take a moment to point out. Nik Molnar and Anthony van der Hoorn , the creators of Glimpse , have joined Microsoft on the Visual Studio team...

This is the next in a series of blog posts that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video-based discussion with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams covering the accomplishments...

Hi everyone the blog post below is written by Peter Blazejewicz , who is a core contributor to the yeoman generators for ASP.NET 5 . Peter took care of the majority of the updates for beta 5. I hope you enjoy, please leave your thoughts below in the comments...

This is the first in a series of blog post that will cover the topics discussed in the ASP.NET Community Standup. The community standup is a short video with some of the leaders of the ASP.NET development teams to discuss the accomplishments of the team...

This week we released ASP.NET 5 Beta5 as an in-place update to Visual Studio 2015 RC on http://nuget.org !
The version that shipped with VS2015RC was Beta4 so you’ll definitely want toget this update. ASP.NET 5 Beta5 is loaded with lots of new...

This is the first in a twice weekly series of blog posts that we’re going to share from the Microsoft Web Development blog to showcase some of the really cool and mature features available in ASP.NET Web Forms for developers to use in their projects...

ASP.NET 5 apps can now be monitored for performance and usage with Visual Studio Application Insights . The composability of components in ASP.NET 5 makes it very easy to integrate telemetry modules into your app design in a flexible way. With the feedback...

We released Visual Studio 2015 RC which included ASP.NET 5 Preview . Along with ASP.NET 5 Preview we have also been working on improving ASP.NET 4.6 which includes Web Forms, MVC 5 and Web API 2. This post highlights updates in this area. What is ASP...

Today Scott Hanselman announced the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5. We hope that all //build attendees are enjoying the show, and we are following up on the news of the Visual Studio...

BASIC is part of the DNA of Microsoft, and we have continued to evolve the language for most of the 40 years of the company’s existence. In the next evolution of the language, Visual Basic 14, there are a number of great features that are being...

We are releasing ASP.NET Identity 2.2.1. The main focus in this release was to fix issues reported in 2.2.0 release .
Download this release
You can download ASP.NET Identity from the NuGet gallery. You can install or update these packages using...

As part of the Azure SDK 2.5.1 release, a new feature called Azure API Apps were included. This new feature raises the capabilities of ASP.NET Web API, extending it with Swagger metadata while providing a simple to manage interface in the Azure Portal...

Visual Studio 2015 ships with multiple open source command line tools that are used in modern web development workflows. Those tools are:
Node.exe
grunt-cli
Bower
npm
Git
All of these tools are shipped as part of Visual Studio...

Welcome Back! - The AJAX Control Toolkit March 2015 Update
Its been 15 months since a significant update was released for the AJAX Control Toolkit on CodePlex. In the time since then, our friends at DevExpress have stepped up and offered to lead this...

Hi everyone, the blog post below is written by Shayne Boyer, who is a community member that has been working on the ASP.NET 5 yeoman generators. I hope you enjoy it. - Sayed
With the most recent version of Visual Studio 2015 CTP, CTP 6 this past Monday...

As anticipated in Monday’s announcement, the CTP release of Visual Studio 2015 brings lots of interesting news to identityland – both in the IDE and in the form of libraries we released on NuGet at the same time.
The features are still...

It's time for another Visual Studio 2015 CTP, and with the CTP 6 release in February 2015 you should find a number of improvements that every web developer will enjoy. In this article we'll review the new features and improvements in ASP.NET 5 and the...

We are releasing the final version of ASP.NET Identity 2.2. The main focus in this release was to fix bugs and address performance issues.
Open source
We have also made the source code publicly available on aspnetidentity.codeplex.com and will be...

If your application is using ASP.NET Identity or other membership systems such as SQL, Universal or Simple membership, then you might be running into the following issue.
If you are using ASP.NET Identity 2.x, the query for getting profile values ...

While the MVC team is working hard on MVC 6 as part of the ASP.NET 5 effort, we also keep working on the 5.x packages. Today we are releasing ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3, Web Pages 5.2.3 and Web API 5.2.3.
This release addresses 13 issues. Here is the full list...